.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 302 127
Rank change year-on-year +15 -175 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 524 407 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.03% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.44% 5.12% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 494 350 1,769
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,187 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,139 7,945 17,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.96% 20.11% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,171 5,592 14,136
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -27 129 £55,000 -8.33% 54
South East +31 101 £57,500 +15.00% 55
London -68 83 £85,000 +6.25% 54
Midlands +3 80 £60,000 +14.29% 24
North West +14 69 £55,000 -8.33% 28
East of England +27 66 £87,500 +59.09% 23
South West -28 58 £52,500 -22.22% 15
East Midlands +4 50 £60,000 +14.29% 9
North East -10 40 £65,000 +40.54% 10
West Midlands -23 30 £60,000 +0.84% 15
Yorkshire -58 20 £55,000 -8.33% 17
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.53%) IIS
3 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 353 (67.37%) Azure
2 107 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (17.37%) AWS
4 62 (11.83%) GitHub
5 50 (9.54%) SaaS
6 47 (8.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 45 (8.59%) Serverless
8 44 (8.40%) Azure AI
9 41 (7.82%) GitHub Copilot
10 40 (7.63%) Power Platform
11 25 (4.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 23 (4.39%) Power Automate
12 23 (4.39%) PowerApps
13 22 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (4.20%) Azure Functions
13 22 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (3.63%) OneDrive
16 18 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.05%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.19%) AMQP
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (31.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 152 (29.01%) SQL Server
3 116 (22.14%) MongoDB
4 42 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.68%) Power BI
6 25 (4.77%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.67%) MySQL
9 9 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.34%) Redis
10 7 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.76%) GIS
11 4 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.40%) Git
2 7 (1.34%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.95%) GitLab
5 4 (0.76%) JIRA
6 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.57%) Vite
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) MSTest
7 2 (0.38%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (15.27%) Finance
2 51 (9.73%) Social Skills
3 25 (4.77%) Games
4 16 (3.05%) Banking
5 15 (2.86%) Retail
6 14 (2.67%) Advertising
7 9 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (1.72%) Automotive
7 9 (1.72%) Front Office
7 9 (1.72%) Law
7 9 (1.72%) Marketing
8 6 (1.15%) Public Sector
9 5 (0.95%) Legal
10 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.57%) Back Office
11 3 (0.57%) Electronics
11 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.57%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 400 (76.34%) Developer
2 238 (45.42%) .NET Developer
3 125 (23.85%) Senior
4 108 (20.61%) Software Developer
5 77 (14.69%) Senior Developer
6 73 (13.93%) C# Developer
7 55 (10.50%) C# .NET Developer
8 53 (10.11%) Lead
9 50 (9.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 47 (8.97%) Software Engineer
11 31 (5.92%) Senior Software Developer
12 29 (5.53%) Lead Developer
13 28 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (4.96%) .NET Software Developer
15 24 (4.58%) .NET Software Engineer
16 22 (4.20%) Applications Developer
17 21 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
18 20 (3.82%) Azure Developer
18 20 (3.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 20 (3.82%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 524 (100.00%) .NET
2 234 (44.66%) ASP.NET
3 159 (30.34%) ASP.NET Core
4 114 (21.76%) React
5 104 (19.85%) HTML
6 103 (19.66%) CSS
7 97 (18.51%) Entity Framework
8 94 (17.94%) RESTful
9 93 (17.75%) .NET Framework
9 93 (17.75%) Blazor
10 77 (14.69%) Vue
11 70 (13.36%) AngularJS
12 62 (11.83%) ASP.NET Web API
13 60 (11.45%) Node.js
14 44 (8.40%) ML.NET
15 38 (7.25%) REST
16 37 (7.06%) LINQ
17 33 (6.30%) JSON
18 21 (4.01%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (3.63%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 13 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.48%) Sports Betting
6 11 (2.10%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.72%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.34%) iPhone
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Social Network
11 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
12 5 (0.95%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.76%) BBC
13 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.48%) VMS
2 7 (1.34%) Android
2 7 (1.34%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (46.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (37.60%) Agile
3 150 (28.63%) CI/CD
4 139 (26.53%) DevOps
5 106 (20.23%) Software Engineering
6 98 (18.70%) Microservices
7 64 (12.21%) Machine Learning
8 61 (11.64%) AI
9 55 (10.50%) Multithreading
10 53 (10.11%) Containerisation
11 52 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (9.73%) SDLC
13 50 (9.54%) MVC
14 49 (9.35%) OO
15 42 (8.02%) User Experience
16 40 (7.63%) Analytics
17 39 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (6.87%) Collaborative Culture
19 35 (6.68%) Clean Code
19 35 (6.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 474 (90.46%) C#
2 280 (53.44%) SQL
3 146 (27.86%) JavaScript
4 107 (20.42%) TypeScript
5 39 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.63%) Python
7 12 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.15%) Bash
10 4 (0.76%) Bicep
10 4 (0.76%) Java
11 3 (0.57%) PHP
12 2 (0.38%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 35 (6.68%) Degree
2 16 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (1.34%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.24%) QA
2 8 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.38%) GDPR
3 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.38%) ITGC
3 2 (0.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (21.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 99 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 233 (44.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.63%) Adobe
3 17 (3.24%) Google
4 14 (2.67%) Facebook
5 6 (1.15%) YouTube
6 5 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.76%) Apple
7 4 (0.76%) Sony
7 4 (0.76%) Workday
7 4 (0.76%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.38%) Foundry
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.19%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.19%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.19%) Reuters
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.19%) WooCommerce